>>Thomas, I must be missing something, for I do not see a contradiction in this, it is possible that "Armed robbery", "Assault causing bodily harm" and all other "violent crimes" (I "invented" the terms, not sure if is how they are called) are way up while only murder and rape went down, thus the overall category "violent crimes" went up.
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>Hugo;
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>The number of violent crimes decreases while the number of incidents of murder and rape increase.
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>If murder and rape are not considered as "violent crimes", then I am the one who does not get it. :)
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>Tom


The way I see it, and what I think Hugo is trying to say is:

if VC=a+b+c+d+e+f+g+h+...+x+y+z

where a=violent crime 1
b=violent crime 2
m=murder
r=rape
z=some other violent crime

The sum of a, b, c, ..., y, z can be greater, even though m and r are smaller than they were in previous years.